Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7658 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

byshoppesbishops

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it: 536 times in 99 works
Consistency: 100% (536 of 536)
Reach if approved: ~563 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bishops
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 536 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (536 changes in 99 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 536)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… but Biſhops haue defended it… In liuynge (when you ſaye Chriſt muſt bee preached) ByſhoppesBishops ar… ſo abhominable, and ſo contrary to Chriſt: that ether Chriſt and his Apoſtles …
With rule
… but Biſhops haue defended it… In liuynge (when you ſaye Chriſt muſt bee preached) ByſhoppesBishops ar… ſo abhominable, and ſo contrary to Chriſt: that ether Chriſt and his Apoſtles …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader
Printed
… the sowle lost / tyll erronyouse doctrine be receyued from the massengers of Antichrist the ByshoppesBishops and Hipocrites.
With rule
… the sowle lost / tyll erronyouse doctrine be receyued from the massengers of Antichrist the ByshoppesBishops and Hipocrites.
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… presidentes. I meane not that I woulde haue prelates Lordes presidentes, nor that Lord byshoppesbishops shuld be Lorde presydentes. As touchynge that, I sayed my minde and cōscience the …
With rule
… presidentes. I meane not that I woulde haue prelates Lordes presidentes, nor that Lord byshoppesbishops shuld be Lorde presydentes. As touchynge that, I sayed my minde and cōscience the …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… namely, what they ought, and are bounde to do to there ſubiectes, how the ByſhoppesBishops ought to behaue them ſelues towardes the churche. Fathers and mothers towardes their chyldren …
With rule
… namely, what they ought, and are bounde to do to there ſubiectes, how the ByſhoppesBishops ought to behaue them ſelues towardes the churche. Fathers and mothers towardes their chyldren …
Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader
Printed
… synnes of y^e people, therefore in the newe testamente muste ther be priestes and ByshoppesBishops to offere sacrifices for sinnes. The body of the Lord once offered on the …
With rule
… synnes of y^e people, therefore in the newe testamente muste ther be priestes and ByshoppesBishops to offere sacrifices for sinnes. The body of the Lord once offered on the …
Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader
Printed
… beseche also our moste graciouse Prynce and his prayse worthy lande, that yf the ByshoppesBishops wil haue vs to be obedient to them, that that maye be done with …
With rule
… beseche also our moste graciouse Prynce and his prayse worthy lande, that yf the ByshoppesBishops wil haue vs to be obedient to them, that that maye be done with …
Philipp Melanchthon · A Weighing and Considering of the Interim · Open in the reader
Printed
… our byſhopes then Chryſte and his apoſtles and al the prophetes were vnder the byſhoppesbishops of the olde lawe? Naye verelye, and therfore maye we and alſo oughte to …
With rule
… our byſhopes then Chryſte and his apoſtles and al the prophetes were vnder the byſhoppesbishops of the olde lawe? Naye verelye, and therfore maye we and alſo oughte to …
William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · p. xxviii · Open in the reader
Printed
… any Ecclesiastical power, either for Doctrine, or regiment of the Church. Phil: 1, 1. To the ByshoppesBishops and Deacons of Phillippi.
With rule
… any Ecclesiastical power, either for Doctrine, or regiment of the Church. Phil: 1, 1. To the ByshoppesBishops and Deacons of Phillippi.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 28 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.